Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Hermarchus, John Hawthorne and Francis Bacon
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 2. Natural Purpose / c. Purpose denied
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Teleological accounts are fine in metaphysics, but they stop us from searching for the causes [Bacon]
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / a. Greek matter
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Stripped and passive matter is just a human invention [Bacon]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 7. Eliminating causation
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Maybe scientific causation is just generalisation about the patterns [Hawthorne]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 6. Laws as Numerical
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We only know the mathematical laws, but not much else [Hawthorne]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / a. Scientific essentialism
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Essences are part of first philosophy, but as part of nature, not part of logic [Bacon]
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